Marge Piercy Quotes

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Making mistakes is how we learn.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.